"Empok Nor" is the 122nd episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 24th episode of the fifth season. The episode primarily takes place on the Cardassian space station Empok Nor, which was abandoned for some time. Within the Star Trek science fiction universe, in the year 2373 a salvage mission is lead to the derelict space station from Deep Space Nine.[1] However, to accomplish this mission it is known that various Cardassian booby traps must be overcome.[2]

Empok Nor is a space station in the late 2300s, of the same type as Deep Space Nine but it has been left derelict. In the Star Trek space science fiction universe, the Cardassians are an alien species that have recently made a peace treaty with the United Federation of Planets (aka the Federation) and pulled out from their occupation of the exoplanet Bajor inhabited by the humanoid alien species of the same name. As part of the peace treaty the Cardassians left a large amount of material, that is now administered by Bajorans in conjunction with the Federation— an interplanetary alliance they hope to join. Much of the back-story for this fictional universe was established by the 1960s television show Star Trek which was broadcast from 1966 to 1969, and Star Trek: The Next Generation which ran from 1987-1994

In this episode, the character Miles O'Brien (introduced on the aforementioned Star Trek: The Next Generation) leads an away team to an abandoned space station, of the same design as Deep Space Nine (ex Terok Nor). On this mission are the reoccurring characters Garak, played by Andrew J. Robinson and Nog played by Aron Eisenberg. There are several guest stars including Tom Hodges as Pechetti, Andy Milder as Boq'ta, Marjean Holden as Stolzoff, and Jeffrey King as Amaro. This episode includes many special effect shots and props including a space suit, Danube-class Runabout, phasers, and of the Empok Nor space station.

Kira, Dax, and Worf arrive at Quark's to find it strangely empty, soon discovering that the other customers have been driven away by noisy work Chief O'Brien and Nog are performing on a nearby conduit. When attempts to repair the conduit fail, O'Brien realizes it will need to be replaced, and as replication is impossible, he suggests they mount a salvage expedition to Deep Space Nine's sister station, Empok Nor, which the Cardassians abandoned a year prior. The salvage team consists of O'Brien, Garak, Nog, engineers Pechetti and Boq'ta, and security officers Stolzoff and Amaro. As Cardassians routinely booby-trap abandoned facilities against non-Cardassian intruders, Garak is brought along to help disarm the security measures.

On the abandoned station, the team discovers two empty and recently deactivated stasis tubes and a third one with a dead Cardassian soldier, whose uniform marks him as a member of an elite and ruthless battalion. Suddenly, the away team's runabout detaches from the station and explodes, stranding them inside with no means to send for help. The team splits into groups to continue the salvage and attempt to establish communications.

The recently awoken Cardassian soldiers methodically ambush and eliminate Pechetti and Stolzoff. Rather than remaining with the others, Garak decides to go on the offensive and track down the enemy soldiers himself. He returns after eliminating one of them, and relays his discovery that the soldiers had been subjected to psychotropic drugs which amplify their natural xenophobic tendencies. He then disappears to find the remaining adversary. The rest of the team continues their tasks, noting Garak's ruthlessness and unusual behaviour. The second soldier ambushes Boq'ta, but Garak emerges and kills him before he can kill Amaro, only to then stab Amaro himself.

O'Brien and Nog discover Amaro, who tells them what happened, then dies from his injuries. O'Brien realizes Garak has been affected by the same drug as the soldiers, and sets out to stop him. Garak, meanwhile, sets a trap and captures Nog, using him to draw O'Brien out. O'Brien consents to lay down his weapons and face Garak in hand-to-hand combat, but disables him with his own trap, having rigged his phaser to overload and explode.

The three are rescued, having collected the parts they needed, but at a terrible price. Back on DS9, O'Brien visits Garak in the infirmary. Garak expresses his sincere regret; O'Brien informs him there will be an inquest. Garak remarks that he is lucky the phaser blast didn't kill him, which O'Brien reveals it was in fact intended to do.

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Booby trap
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A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm or surprise a person, unknowingly triggered by the presence or actions of the victim. As the word implies, they sometimes have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it. At other times, the trap is set to act upon trespassers that violate personal or restricted areas, the device can be triggered when the victim performs some type of everyday action e. g. opening a door, picking something up or switching something on. They can also be triggered by driving along a road as in the case of victim-operated improvised explosive devices. Booby traps should not be confused with mantraps which are designed to catch a person, booby traps which merely cause discomfort or embarrassment are a popular form of practical joke. The Spanish word bobo translates to stupid, daft, naïve, simple, fool, idiot, clown, funny man, one who is easily cheated, the slang of bobo, bubie, translates to dunce. Variations of this word exist in other languages, with their meaning being to stammer, the word has also been applied to the Sula genus of sea birds, with their common name being boobies. These birds, adapted for sea flight and swimming, have flat feet and wide wingspans. As a result, they are considered clumsy and easy to catch when onshore and they are also known for landing aboard seagoing vessels, whereupon they have been eaten by the crew. In approximately 1590, the word appearing in the English language as booby, meaning stupid person. The phrase booby trap originally applied to schoolboy pranks, but took on its more sinister connotation during World War I. A military booby trap may be designed to kill or injure a person who activates its trigger, most, but not all, military booby traps involve explosives. There is no division between a booby trap and buried conventional land mines triggered by a tripwire or directional mine. Other, similar devices include spring-guns and mechanisms such as the SM-70 directional antipersonnel mine, what distinguishes a booby trap is that its activation is intended to be unexpected to its victim. Thus booby trap design is varied, with traps or their trigger mechanisms often hidden. Frequently at least part of the device is improvised from standard ordnance, such as a shell, grenade. Part of the skill in placing booby traps lies in exploiting natural human behaviors such as habit, self-preservation, an example that exploits an instinct for self-preservation was used in the Vietnam War. Spikes known as Punji sticks were hidden in grassy areas, when fired upon soldiers instinctively sought to take cover by throwing themselves down on the ground, impaling themselves on the spikes

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Space station
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A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by lack of major propulsion or landing systems. Instead, other vehicles transport people and cargo to and from the station, as of September 2016 three space stations are in orbit, the International Space Station, which is permanently manned, Chinas Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. Previous stations include the Almaz and Salyut series, Skylab, each crew member stays aboard the station for weeks or months, but rarely more than a year. Since the ill-fated flight of Soyuz 11 to Salyut 1, all manned spaceflight duration records have been set aboard space stations, the duration record for a single spaceflight is 437.7 days, set by Valeriy Polyakov aboard Mir from 1994 to 1995. As of 2016, four cosmonauts have completed single missions of over a year, Space stations have also been used for both military and civilian purposes. The last military-use space station was Salyut 5, which was used by the Almaz program of the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1977, Space stations have been envisaged since at least as early as 1869 when Edward Everett Hale wrote The Brick Moon. The first to give consideration to space stations were Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the early 20th century. In 1929 Herman Potočniks The Problem of Space Travel was published, during the Second World War, German scientists researched the theoretical concept of an orbital weapon based on a space station. During the same time as von Braun pursued Potočniks ideas, the Soviet design bureaus – chiefly Vladimir Chelomeys OKB-52 – were pursuing Tsiolkovskys ideas for space stations, the work by OKB-52 would lead to the Almaz programme and to the first space station, Salyut 1. The developed hardware laid the ground for the Salyut and Mir space stations, the first space station was Salyut 1, which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19,1971. Like all the space stations, it was monolithic, intended to be constructed and launched in one piece. As such, monolithic stations generally contained all their supplies and experimental equipment when launched, and were considered expended, and then abandoned, the earlier Soviet stations were all designated Salyut, but among these there were two distinct types, civilian and military. The military stations, Salyut 2, Salyut 3, and Salyut 5, were known as Almaz stations. This allowed for a crew to man the station continually, Skylab was also equipped with two docking ports, like second-generation stations, but the extra port was never utilized. The presence of a port on the new stations allowed Progress supply vehicles to be docked to the station. This concept was expanded on Salyut 7, which docked with a TKS tug shortly before it was abandoned. The later Salyuts may reasonably be seen as a transition between the two groups, unlike previous stations, the Soviet space station Mir had a modular design, a core unit was launched, and additional modules, generally with a specific role, were later added to that. This method allows for flexibility in operation, as well as removing the need for a single immensely powerful launch vehicle

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Star Trek: The Original Series
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Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek, The Original Series to distinguish the show within the franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s, the ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk, first officer and science officer Spock, and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy. Shatners voice-over introduction during each episodes opening credits stated the purpose, Space. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise and its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. The series was produced from September 1966 to December 1967 by Norway Productions and Desilu Productions, Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8,1966 to June 3,1969 and was actually seen first on September 6,1966, on Canadas CTV network. Star Treks Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network cancelled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. Several years later, the became a bona fide hit in broadcast syndication, remaining so throughout the 1970s, achieving cult classic status. The series contains significant elements of Space Western, as described by Gene Roddenberry, on March 11,1964, Gene Roddenberry, a long-time fan of science fiction, drafted a short treatment for a science-fiction television series that he called Star Trek. This was to be set on board a large interstellar spaceship S. S. Yorktown in the 23rd century, whose crew was dedicated to exploring a small portion of our galaxy. Some of the influences on his idea that Roddenberry noted included A. E. van Vogts tales of the spaceship Space Beagle, Eric Frank Russells Marathon series of stories, and the film Forbidden Planet. Roddenberry also drew heavily from C. S. Foresters Horatio Hornblower novels that depict a sea captain who exercises broad discretionary authority on distant sea missions of noble purpose. Roddenberry often humorously referred to Captain Kirk as Horatio Hornblower in Space, Roddenberry had extensive experience in writing for series about the Old West that had been popular television fare earlier in the 1960s and the 1950s. Armed with this background, the first draft deliberately characterizes the new show as Wagon Train to the stars. Like the familiar Wagon Train, each episode was to be an adventure story, set within the overarching structure of a continuing journey. With the notable exception of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, all future television, in Roddenberrys original concept, the protagonist was Captain Robert April of the starship S. S. Yorktown. This character was developed into Captain Christopher Pike, first portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter, in April 1964, Roddenberry presented the Star Trek draft to Desilu Productions, a leading independent television production company. He met with Herb Solow, Desilus Director of Production, Solow saw promise in the idea and signed a three-year program-development contract with Roddenberry

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Weapons in Star Trek
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The Star Trek fictional universe contains a variety of weapons, ranging from missiles to melee. A directed-energy weapon emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile and it transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. Intended effects may be non-lethal or lethal, for example, in Star Trek, a hand phaser can be set to stun or kill. Phasers come in a range of sizes, ranging from small arms to starship-mounted weaponry. There are several types of phasers used by the United Federation of Planets Starfleet. Though they seem to discharge in a beam, close observation reveals that phasers actually discharge a series of pulsed energy projectiles into the target. This versatility means they can also be used as welding torches or cutting tools, the stream can be adjusted to strike multiple targets at once, strike a single target with precision, or even destroy large amounts of material. The overload process is marked by a sound that increases in volume. Personal phasers can be small enough to fit in the users palm. Larger and more powerful phaser rifles are issued to security personnel. The ships phaser system was said to be capable of destroying continents. Starship phasers can be used while the ship is travelling at Warp speeds. According to later series, Phasers release a beam of fictional subatomic particles called rapid nadions and this was a homage to the 1990 anime series Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, known in North America as Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water. This version of the phaser seems to only have two settings, stun and kill, which fire blue and red colored projectiles respectively. The barrel of the weapon is two-sided, one being colored red and the blue to indicate the current setting. A similar change was seen in the starship-mounted phaser banks, which also fire single projectiles instead of continuous streams. In Star Trek Beyond, the sides of the sidearm phasers are flat and both barrels shoot blue bolts that deal no physical damage, while the barrel tips are still colored blue. The original phaser rifle prop from Where No Man Has Gone Before sold at auction for $231,000, the Borg cutter weapon is a laser, as mentioned in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode Q Who and is apparently incapable of directly penetrating Federation shielding

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Star Trek
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and it followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, an exploration vessel. The Star Trek canon of the franchise include The Original Series, a series, four spin-off television series, its film franchise. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book Gullivers Travels and these adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek, The Animated Series and six feature films. The adventures of The Next Generation crew continued in four feature films. In 2009, the franchise underwent a reboot set in an alternate timeline, or Kelvin Timeline. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the show, their adventures were continued in the sequel film. The thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released to coincide with the franchises 50th anniversary, a new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek, Discovery, will premiere in May 2017 on the digital platform CBS All Access. Star Trek has been a phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers, the franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had an attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1998. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world, the series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek, in addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in revenue, Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of televisions first multiracial casts, Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the animated series South Park. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the series that would become Star Trek

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Wiki
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A wiki is a website that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a markup language. A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine, there are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary, some permit control over different functions, for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control, other rules may also be imposed to organize content. Wikipedia is not a wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis. There are at least tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles, as of September 2016, ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as the simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning quick, Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not. A wiki is not a carefully crafted site created by experts and professional writers, instead, it seeks to involve the typical visitor/user in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website landscape. A wiki enables communities of editors and contributors to write documents collaboratively, all that people require to contribute is a computer, Internet access, a web browser and a basic understanding of a simple markup language. A single page in a website is referred to as a wiki page, while the entire collection of pages. A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing, a wiki allows non-linear, evolving, complex and networked text, while also allowing for editor argument, debate and interaction regarding the content and formatting. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated, generally, there is no review by a moderator or gatekeeper before modifications are accepted and thus lead to changes on the website. Many wikis are open to alteration by the public without requiring registration of user accounts. Many edits can be made in real-time and appear almost instantly online, however, this feature facilitates abuse of the system. Private wiki servers require user authentication to edit pages, and sometimes even to read them, maged N. Kamel Boulos, Cito Maramba and Steve Wheeler write that the open wikis produce a process of Social Darwinism. Unfit sentences and sections are ruthlessly culled, edited and replaced if they are not considered fit, while such openness may invite vandalism and the posting of untrue information, this same openness also makes it possible to rapidly correct or restore a quality wiki page

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Star Trek, Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years 2369–2375. In contrast to other Star Trek TV shows, it takes place on a space station instead of a starship, so as not to have two series with starships in the same time period. The show is noted for its characters, original and complex plots, and religious themes. It often showcased darker themes, less physical exploration of space, and, in later seasons, DS9 premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons until 1999. The series was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, as overall head of Star Trek production, Berman served as executive producer for the seriess entire run. Piller initially served as executive producer and showrunner, but left the series in 1995 to manage Star Trek Voyager. Writer Ira Steven Behr was promoted by Berman to replace Piller as showrunner, in addition to Berman, Piller, and Behr, key writers included Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ronald D. Moore, Peter Allan Fields, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Hans Beimler and René Echevarria. DS9 began while Star Trek, The Next Generation was still on the air, the stations first appearance in TNG was during the sixth-season episode Birthright. In addition, two Next Generation characters, Miles OBrien and Worf, became members of DS9. The station also appeared in the Star Trek, Voyager pilot episode, each DS9 episode began with the same opening sequence. A small comet is traveling through deep space, leaving an icy trail. As shuttle craft are seen moving about, the ends with the wormhole seen opening. DS9 centers on the formerly Cardassian space station Terok Nor, the station is renamed Deep Space Nine, and a Starfleet crew is assigned to manage it. Deep Space Nine and Bajor quickly become a center for exploration, interstellar trade, political maneuvering, Deep Space Nine becomes a key military base for the Federation in the Dominion War, and is assigned the starship USS Defiant to aid in its protection. While its predecessors tended to restore the status quo ante at the end of episode, allowing out-of-order viewing, DS9 contains story arcs that span episodes. One installment often builds upon earlier ones, with several cliffhanger endings, Michael Piller considered this one of the seriess best qualities, allowing repercussions of past episodes to influence future events and forcing characters to learn that actions have consequences. This trend was especially noticeable toward the finale, by which time the show was intentionally scripted as a serial. Unlike Star Trek, The Next Generation, interpersonal conflicts were prominently featured in DS9, in Pillers words, People who come from different places—honorable, noble people—will naturally have conflicts

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Bryan Fuller
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Bryan Fuller is an American screenwriter and television producer. Fuller has worked exclusively as a writer/producer in television, creating a number of acclaimed television series, including Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies. Fuller was born in Lewiston, Idaho and raised in Clarkston, Washington, after graduating from Clarkston High School, Fuller attended Lewis–Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. He later transferred to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but dropped out, Fuller is himself a fan of science fiction, and in an interview said that his favorite Star Trek series were the 1960s original, followed by Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation and Voyager. Fuller has called DS9 his favorite spin-off, stating, There were lots of new and innovative things going on during Deep Space Nine, Fuller worked on the DS9 episodes The Darkness and the Light and Empok Nor. Fuller wrote the teleplay for the 2002 adaptation of Carrie, based on the novel of the name by Stephen King. Next, he created Dead Like Me which ran on Showtime for two seasons from 2003 to 2004, although Fuller left early into the first season. He then co-created Wonderfalls with Todd Holland, which ran on Fox in 2004, with four episodes being aired. Near the end of 2004, Fuller got a commitment from NBC for The Assistants. In 2005, Fuller wrote the pilot to the animated comedy The Amazing Screw-On Head for the Sci Fi Channel and he next worked on NBC series Heroes, where he joined as a consulting producer after the pilot and became a co-executive producer for the first season. He also wrote a couple episodes for Heroes, including Company Man which TV Guide named one of the 100 greatest episodes in television history. Next he created Pushing Daisies, about a pie-maker who can bring things back to life temporarily. On July 17,2008 the show was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, including one for Fuller for Outstanding Writing of a Comedy Series. It ultimately won seven Emmy Awards, for Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Costume, Best Music, Best Make-Up, Best Editing, the second season of Pushing Daisies began October 1,2008 on ABC. In mid-November, ABC announced that it would not order new episodes for two after the 13th. The seriess final episode aired on June 13,2009, with the cancellation of Pushing Daisies, Fuller signed a seven-figure, two-year deal with Universal Media Studios. He rejoined the staff of Heroes for the 20th episode of the third season. After working on some of the arcs for the next season of Heroes

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Worf
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Worf, son of Mogh is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. Worf is the first Klingon main character to appear in Star Trek and he is played by the actor Michael Dorn. Initially, Worf was not intended to be a regular character, accordingly, the June 1,1987 cast portrait did not include Worf. Several tall, slim, black actors auditioned for Worf before Michael Dorn came along, walking into the audition in character, the House of Mogh was a family of high social and political rank which was for a time represented on the Klingon High Council. In Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, Colonel Worf appears as the advocate of Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy after they are accused of killing Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council and he was also a member of the Klingon delegation at Camp Khitomer. Although not explicitly stated, he was intended to be Worfs grandfather, Worf was born in 2340 on QonoS as the son of Mogh. Five years later, his parents moved to the Khitomer colony, Worfs parents were killed during a surprise attack by the Romulans on the Khitomer outpost. The colonys distress call was answered by the Federation starship USS Intrepid, Chief Petty Officer Sergey Rozhenko found Worf in the rubble and took him in after failing to find any living relatives. Rozhenko and his wife Helena raised him on a farm colony on the planet Gault. Worf also has a brother, Nikolai, with whom he often quarreled. He also spent time on Earth in his parents native city of Minsk, Worf did not take the Rozhenkos last name, preferring to be addressed by the Klingon designation Worf, son of Mogh. However, his son Alexander Rozhenko, who was raised by the Rozhenkos after his mother KEhleyr died, although Worf was raised by humans, he considered himself a Klingon at heart and studied the ways of his people. As an adult, his mannerisms and personality, as well as his sense of honor. Worfs brother Kurn, barely a year old at the time of the Khitomer attack, had left behind on the Klingon homeworld QonoS by his parents. Lorgh, a friend to House of Mogh, was charged with the care of the younger son, lorgh adopted Kurn after the attack, but informed Klingon authorities that he had died with the rest of the family. Kurn was not revealed as being alive until both brothers were adults, in 2357, Worf entered Starfleet Academy. He graduated in 2361 and was commissioned with the rank of Ensign, although Worf took immense pride and a sense of honor from serving in Starfleet, most other Klingons shunned and belittled his choice of vocation

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Quark (Star Trek)
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Quark is a fictional character in the American television series Star Trek, Deep Space Nine. The character, which was played by Armin Shimerman, was depicted as a member of a race known as the Ferengi. Quark, who served as the shows comedy relief, may have been named after the 1978 Quark. Before opening a bar, known as Quarks, on the station, Quark came to the station while it was named Terok Nor during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. When the station changed hands at the end of the occupation, in the episode Business as Usual, Sisko admitted that he had cut a lot of slack in the past even looked away once or twice when could have come down hard on. A shrewd businessman, Quark often quotes the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, when the Bajoran wormhole was discovered, Quark helped broker deals between several Gamma Quadrant races and the Ferengi. The Alpha Quadrants first knowledge of the Dominion came through business dealings that Quark, Quarks role in these dealings came about as a result of the interference of Grand Nagus Zek. Quark became Grand Nagus for a period when it appeared that Zek had died, however, Zeks death turned out to be a ruse. Along with Commander Sisko, Quark was also among the first to encounter the genetically engineered soldiers of the Dominion, Quark repeatedly clashed with FCA liquidator Brunt, who believed that Quark was detrimental to Ferengi society and beliefs. The two met initially in a scandal involving Quarks mother Ishka, who had earned profit despite this being illegal for a female, following this, Brunt was responsible for Quark receiving a savage beating at the hands of Nausicaan thugs. The attack was meant to coerce Quark into dissolving the union founded by his brother. Instead, Quark secretly honored many of the unions demands, later, when Quark was falsely diagnosed with a fatal disease, Brunt anonymously bought the Ferengi bartenders remains six days in advance. When Brunt almost became Grand Nagus, Quark temporarily became a female named Lumba and this was in order to convince FCA commissioner Nilva that allowing Ferengi females to wear clothing was an opportunity for profit. Brunt did not believe the charade for a minute, Nilva, owner of Slug-O-Cola, The Slimiest Cola In The Galaxy. on the other hand, was more than convinced that Lumba was a woman, and chased her amorously. Quarks involvement with underworld figures led him to become an important source of information for the crew of the station, in the style of Huggy Bear from Starsky. Quark loved his brother Rom, and occasionally found him useful. Nonetheless, in true Ferengi fashion, he treated Rom with little respect, Quark was also fond of swindling Rom out of his share of the bars profits. They were partners in other business ventures, although Quark routinely made sure to keep Rom in the dark about the true nature of their dealings

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Cardassian
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The Cardassians are an extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek, The Next Generation episode, The Wounded, the Cardassians later played a key role in the storyline of the Star Trek, Deep Space Nine series as allies of the Dominion in the Dominion War. Several Cardassian characters, including Elim Garak and Gul Dukat, are prominently featured, Cardassians are a humanoid race, with light grey skin. Their faces have small ridges on their sides, which converge to a characteristic crest shape on their foreheads and this crest has led to the derogatory nickname spoonheads used by other races. Cardassians tend to be dominating and aggressive even in social situations and their public behavior is much like a wolf pack, often seeking out the dominant position in any social gathering. Cardassian culture also places importance on family, advanced age is seen as a sign of power and dignity. Orphans, on the hand, have little standing in Cardassian society and are often abandoned. A prominent ritual in Cardassian society is the shri-tal, carried out when a person is about to die and their closest family members will gather and the dying Cardassian will reveal to them his or her closest secrets, to be used against the family enemies. The Cardassian legal system is centered around the concept of a show trial, guilt is determined prior to the trial itself, which is intended to force the accused person to make a public confession of their guilt and demonstrate the power of the state. The verdict is always guilty, the sentence is always death, in romantic courtships, Cardassian couples routinely act bitter and snap at each other. The Obsidian Order is a Cardassian intelligence organization in the Star Trek universe, security Chief Odo of Deep Space Nine remarked that it was one of the most brutally efficient organizations in the galaxy, being even more ruthless than the Romulan Tal Shiar. The Order kept close tabs on all Cardassian citizens to ensure loyalty and it was said that the average Cardassian could not sit down to dinner without the contents of the meal being noted and logged by the Order. Odo also noted that the Order caused people to disappear for even less than eating something of which the Order did not approve, the Obsidian Orders agent training program is so advanced that they are made immune to most forms of interrogation, including Vulcan mind melds. The Obsidian Order frequently clashed with Central Command, partly even the highest-ranking Command officers are not immune from Order inquiries. Elim Garak was a member of the Order, before being exiled from Cardassia to Deep Space Nine by his father, Tain had retired for a time, the only director to ever live long enough to do so. Garak became an ally of the Federation who used his knowledge to aid them in the war against the Dominion. The Founders soon learned of the plan, via a Changeling who impersonated Colonel Lovok of the Tal Shiar, when the Romulan/Cardassian fleet arrived at the Founders homeworld, they bombarded it, only to realize that the planet was deserted except for a token beacon. Moments later, the Dominion sprang the trap they arranged and a fleet of 150 JemHadar fighters emerged from hiding in a nearby nebula, at least a few Romulan and Cardassian officers survived to be taken prisoner

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Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)
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Chief Petty Officer Miles Edward OBrien, played by Colm Meaney, is a character in Star Trek, The Next Generation and Star Trek, Deep Space Nine. OBrien was originally the chief of the USS Enterprise-D. He was later promoted to Chief of Operations of Deep Space Nine, OBrien is the only major Star Trek character described as both ethnically Irish and born on Earth in Ireland. According to Colm Meaney, at first OBrien was just there, not really established as a character, and he can be seen as the battle bridges conn operator in the first TNG episode, Encounter at Farpoint. However, Meaney came to like the arrangement of being hired on an episode-by-episode basis, along with Worf, Miles OBrien is one of the two characters that moved from TNG to be a main character on DS9. The backstory of the states that Miles OBrien was born in Killarney. He claims descent from Brian Boru, the famous Ard Rí and his father, Michael OBrien, wanted him to play the cello, so he pursued this and was eventually accepted into the Aldebaran Music Academy. However, a few days before he was scheduled to start classes there, OBrien can also be seen playing the cello as part of Datas string quartet early in the TNG episode The Ensigns of Command. In the DS9 episode Invasive Procedures, it is revealed he has two brothers, OBrien does not remember how many Cardassians he killed, because he killed so many. In that episode, it is clear that the classic Irish tune The Minstrel Boy plays a part of his journey as a character. He sings the song in episode, and much later. The Minstrel Boy is the first musical theme to be heard in the flashback sequence, in the DS9 episode Bar Association, OBrien jokingly claims to be a direct descendant of real-life Irish High King Brian Boru. In the following episode, Where Silence Has Lease, when Riker and Worf prepare to beam to the USS Yamato, Riker refers to him as a lieutenant and the character is wearing lieutenant collar pips. He still wears lieutenant pips in Sarek, but in later episodes, in 2367, he confronted Capt. Picard. OBrien marries Keiko Ishikawa aboard the USS Enterprise-D in the TNG episode Datas Day and they have a daughter, Molly, who is delivered by Worf in Disaster. The character of Miles OBrien was transplanted from TNG to DS9 at the beginning of the latter show, in the story, Miles OBrien transfers from the Enterprise-D to Deep Space Nine in the DS9 premiere episode Emissary, to serve as the stations chief of operations. OBriens character is unique in the Star Trek universe, as well as being a non-commissioned officer, he is also a family man with a wife and children. He is often portrayed as being less patrician, and more pragmatic, the producers would routinely put OBrien under intense psychological pressure in episodes jokingly dubbed OBrien must suffer

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